Greg Matter: My Views on Open Source | Linux Today

Greg Matter: My Views on Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 10, 2005

“There aren’t many things in our industry that are more
transformative than open source software, so I think it’s a great
topic to launch my first ‘official’ blog. And what a better time
than now since we announced releasing Solaris in open source form
under the new OpenSolaris community www.opensolaris.org…

“Open software is fundamentally about developer freedom. We want
developers to freely use any of the OpenSolaris code that we
developed for their purposes without any fear of IP infringement of
Sun: either patent or copyright.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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